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so then it isn't -- you can't dhaka the u.s. soviet relations without talking about the british empire. >> here are the three parts of the cold war in the beginning. most americans have no idea. and they have no idea what role the british are playing but roosevelt did, and roosevelt was very, very critical of the british empire has was his vice president from 41 to 45, henry wallace. they want to bring it to the could dismantle the british empire, the french empire, the portuguese, they were very anticolonial. they encourage them and give them a did. it gets us involved in vietnam and in a lot of turmoil that we are going to leave her face. but the other questions you were raising we don't know if there would have been a clash between the americans and the soviets. we had a different interests but we had a very good alliance, and april 23rd, the crucial meeting they both make the point and now we have the soviets and the good wartime allies they also delivered more than the had promised. and so the but were confident that there
so then it isn't -- you can't dhaka the u.s. soviet relations without talking about the british empire. >> here are the three parts of the cold war in the beginning. most americans have no idea. and they have no idea what role the british are playing but roosevelt did, and roosevelt was very, very critical of the british empire has was his vice president from 41 to 45, henry wallace. they want to bring it to the could dismantle the british empire, the french empire, the portuguese, they...
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what the u.s. then did was basically go in there and -- with the guidance counselors saying we're picking up radiation, and they went in there, and they wore all kind of special anti-radiation suits, went in there, and they bulldozed the entire town. they -- all the houses, everything in the houses, and three feet down, tomatoes and three feet below the tomatoes, was all bulldozed and puferlized in terms of the houses, and all of that stuff was put into thousands and thousands of barrels, special barrels made in italy and brought there for that occasion. figure i have a 5500 barrels, and they were loaded aboard ships, and if you ever want to visit the original town, you have to go to south carolina because -- because they went up the savannah river which separates southern south carolina from georgia, and up the river, there was a quarry, put them into the quarry, and then they, quote, sealed it up. i put "seal it up" in quotes because it's the half-life of 250,000 years so i don't believe it's sea
what the u.s. then did was basically go in there and -- with the guidance counselors saying we're picking up radiation, and they went in there, and they wore all kind of special anti-radiation suits, went in there, and they bulldozed the entire town. they -- all the houses, everything in the houses, and three feet down, tomatoes and three feet below the tomatoes, was all bulldozed and puferlized in terms of the houses, and all of that stuff was put into thousands and thousands of barrels,...
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has the castro regime ever tried to assassinate a u.s
has the castro regime ever tried to assassinate a u.s
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so in 1948 my father came to the u.s., and he studied at a seminary in new orleans, and he went around and did some speaking in various places there where he encountered, um, institutionalized segregation even in the church. >> host: and at one point he spoke at a black church. >> guest: ing yes. >> host: and he invited the choir to attend a service of at a white church. >> guest: that's right. >> host: what happened? >> guest: the white church was not happy with that at all, and he not only was the choir ejected and by father and his friend who was a seminary student and also the pastor of that little church of the white church, he was fired. my father's friend. >> host: and your father at some point dropped out of the ministry, correct? >> guest: yes, he did, eventually. >> host: why, because of his experience in alabama? >> guest: no, not necessarily. the family went back to argentina. this was during the '50s, and i was born during that time, and he was a pastor there for a period of time and then decided to come back to the u.s., and the opportunity to teach kind of took precedenc
so in 1948 my father came to the u.s., and he studied at a seminary in new orleans, and he went around and did some speaking in various places there where he encountered, um, institutionalized segregation even in the church. >> host: and at one point he spoke at a black church. >> guest: ing yes. >> host: and he invited the choir to attend a service of at a white church. >> guest: that's right. >> host: what happened? >> guest: the white church was not happy...
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. >> booktv on location at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, maryland interviews professors who a also authors. we are joined by richard ruth, a professor at the naval academy. professor, what do you teach? >> predominantly asian history, and offer courses in thailand and vietnam. >> host: why important for students to know southeast asian history? >> guest: the united states is very much engaged in that corner of the world that we have many allies there. we have many partners we are working with, and many students at the naval academy, shipmen who will be officers who are going to southeast asia and remitting our interests there. i think it's important for them to know southeast asian history to be comfortable with the cultures and have knowledge of the history. >> host: well, professor ruth, a long time ally is thailand, and you wrote a book called "in buddhist company: thai soldiers in the vietnam war." what role did they play? >> guest: thai land was a close ally to the united states in the vietnam war, and those
. >> booktv on location at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, maryland interviews professors who a also authors. we are joined by richard ruth, a professor at the naval academy. professor, what do you teach? >> predominantly asian history, and offer courses in thailand and vietnam. >> host: why important for students to know southeast asian history? >> guest: the united states is very much engaged in that corner of the world that we have many allies there. we have many...
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it was not a weapon designed, funded, or created by the u.s. government, but nevertheless, it was a powerful instrument of warfare on communism, and i'm sure that inoculated people around the world to the appeal of communism and revealed its true face, which the communism hierarchy did so much to keep it, and there was, of course, a larger war, ideological war, called political war, being waged by the u.s. government and a lot of individuals including folks against communism, and i think the message i take from "witness," and not that just, but many other manifestations of this struggle, whether you think about radio for europe, radio liberty, the congress for cultural freedom and counter magazine, or for that matter, cia secret funding provided to christian democratic party in europe to resist communism appeals or in japan or much later on in the 1980s, the efforts made by the u.s. government to fund and support solidarity to undermind the communism regime in poland or when you think of the role playeded by the u.s. government to help smuggle
it was not a weapon designed, funded, or created by the u.s. government, but nevertheless, it was a powerful instrument of warfare on communism, and i'm sure that inoculated people around the world to the appeal of communism and revealed its true face, which the communism hierarchy did so much to keep it, and there was, of course, a larger war, ideological war, called political war, being waged by the u.s. government and a lot of individuals including folks against communism, and i think the...